Consider 25 straight lines in a plane which are no 2 are parallel and no 3 are concurrent. How many regions do these lines divide the plane ?
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Please explain why did you take a quadratic expression to represent the number of parts .
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The quadratic equation is able to give no. Of divided regions where x represents no. of lines . Its just like a series
There can be a simple formula for this 2 n + 2 ( n − 2 ) ( n − 1 ) where n is the no of lines substituting n with 2 5 we get 5 0 + 2 2 3 × 2 4 = 5 0 + 2 7 6 = 3 2 6
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Think about one line. It divides in 2 parts. Now about 2 lines. They divide a plane in 4 parts. 3 lines? 7 parts. 4? 11 parts. This might give an idea that number of parts must be a x 2 + b x + c where x is number of lines! ( x 2 because differece forms AP). By plugging in x=1,2,3, we will get a = 2 1 , b = 2 1 , c = 1
Hence max number of parts in which n lines may divide a plane are 2 n 2 + n + 1 .
By substituting n = 2 5 , we will get number of parts to be 3 2 6